The gardening ingenuity of a YouTuber

Want to make yourself a self-watering planter — great for when those tomato seedlings you’re itching to start grow up? Check out this YouTube video by some brilliant scrounger. It’s a little small to be called a planter, but perhaps it’s perfect for our dried-out indoor air. Colorado weather. All you need is an empty 2-liter bottle and some scraps of cotton fabric. (I ain’t saying this works, and I ain’t sayin’ that it’s Martha-Stewart pretty. But if you’re one of those folks who forget to water, you might want to give this a shot. Free’s good and self -watering? even better.)

Scrounging, btw, is a great tradition among frugal gardeners — old fence panels for trellises, old windows for cold-frames, you know the drill.